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  Review by Ayo Edebiri

  this how y’all be acting about me on this damn application

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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Now that's what I call an ending.

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  Review by Steven Sheehan ★★★★ 17

  A startlingly brave film for the time it was made in, Freaks is a genuinely empathetic story that still retains its power today. Quite who the real monsters are becomes clearer the more we are taken into the world of these circus performers. The horror arrives not from those who appear different from the 'norm' but those who cannot accept them.

  There are moments of course where Tod Browning verges on exploiting the very same people he is trying to humanise. Some scenes are clearly set up as a spectacle, such as the man without limbs lighting his own cigarette or the rush to the bearded lady's tent to see her newborn. Yet by not filming their performances in the…

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  Review by Matt! ★★★★½ 5

  Unfairly labeled a horror film by audiences at the time (because pre-Code movies were just a different breed), as well as being extremely progressive even by today’s standards, the only real freaks in Tod Browning’s Freaks are the ones who are horrifying on the inside—not the outside. Straightforward, lovable, heartbreaking, and with one of the most satisfying endings in film history. I would literally take a storm of bullets for Hans and Freida.

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  Review by amaya ★★★ 4

  cleopatra it's on sight

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  Review by san ★★★★ 1

  engrossing, eccentric, and authentic. not a horror movie. just a community of based freaks.

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  Review by luvi ★★★★

  Uh... Wasn't that something REVOLUTIONARY.
  I wasn't expecting this at all but man, what a lesson in humanity.

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  Review by {Todd} ★★★★½ 1

  "We accept her" -the gang,

  Oh to see that destroyed footage. I could watch Prince Landian light a cigarette 100 times in a row and still think it was cool. If you haven't seen this, do so. It's a real delight.

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★★½

  spent the whole time waiting for jessica lange to show up and sing life on mars </3

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  Review by Héctor ★★★★

  "To me, you're a man. But to her, you're only something to laugh at." So sad. :(

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  Review by Paul Elliott ★★★★ 1

  Often mistakenly considered a horror film due to its director being associated predominately with the genre, particularly after helming Universal Pictures Dracula, Freaks is instead a unique film about a travelling carnival sideshow and the camaraderie of its extraordinary performers. 

  Browning, who had a personal background as a vaudeville performer, assembled a remarkable cast with some genuine abnormalities, many of whom had primarily made their living in circuses and sideshows. The film obtained immediate notoriety where it was the victim of harsh censorship in the US as well as strangely being banned in the UK for almost thirty years. 

  It's a bizarre and fascinating film which expends a large amount of its runtime exhibiting its cast of characters occupied in…

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  Review by Sally Jane Black 3

  First of all, I highly recommend Annie's patreon for access to fantastic screenings. The Tod Browning marathon tonight was the best way to cap off a long week, and her commentary during the film was the kind of insightful analysis and context that transforms a viewing experience and elevates the already incredible film you're watching.

  Watching this as a Marxist (my last viewing was a thousand years ago - I was a quasi-anti-capitalist searching for a worldview at the time, I suspect), it is a very different experience. Someone in the screening chat noted this didn't feel like a horror film; others said the ending would change that. I disagree. The final scene was unnecessary; the call back to the…